LawFuel’s 2022 Lawyer of the Year is the battling ‘loophole lawyer’ who fought to get Charlotte Bellis into the country under the MIQ lottery system.
Article source: Astor Professional Search Hiring experienced attorneys has become increasingly complex for law firms. Strong candidates may not be actively applying for jobs, and lawyers with specialized practices often have specific expectations regarding compensation, advancement, workplace flexibility, and firm culture. Posting an opening and waiting for applications may therefore produce a limited candidate pool.
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Nicky Hager’s latest political book. Launched with great fanfare at the bastion of Wellington enlightenment, Unity Books, has produced an unexpected legal sequel with fellow investigative journalist Ian Wishart turning to Hager’s own sworn testimony from a High Court defamation trial to ask whether the publication standards he advocated then were followed now. Investigative journalism
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BigLaw’s next recruiting war may not be over lawyers at all. Cooley is recruiting for 14 technology positions as it builds Cooley AI, its recently created AI subsidiary, according to Reuters. The firm is looking for engineers and other technology specialists as it develops its own AI capabilities rather than simply buying whatever legal-tech vendors
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Article source: Vaziri Law LLP Your boss hands you the keys to a company truck, and forty minutes later there’s a dented bumper and a driver on the phone with a neck brace. The first thought isn’t legal theory. It’s a sick feeling that this somehow lands on you. Here’s the good news, and it’s
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New Zealand’s plan to digitise its courts has hit the usual milestones for a government IT project that we’ve all become to used to – namely delays, cost overruns, a near-death experience and, now, a refusal to say what it all costs. Law Jobs – General Counsel & Company Secretary – Join the Executive Team
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Five partners have joined Jones Day in Australia, bolstering the Firm’s capacity to serve clients across a broad range of complex domestic and cross-border matters. The new partners are: Brisbane: Sydney: With these additions, Jones Day has added 10 lateral partners in 2026 and 18 lateral partners since mid-2024 when it launched a strategic growth
Law firms routinely advise clients about workplace conflict. Occasionally they provide the case study themselves. Senior solicitor Geetha Arunthayaparan claimed she had been bullied and effectively forced out of an Auckland law firm following a deteriorating workplace relationship that included an incident in which a partner allegedly threw a pen during an argument. The dispute
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Weil Gotshal’s extraordinary partner exodus is exposing an uncomfortable truth about the world’s richest law firms – they have spent years creating superstar rainmakers whose commercial power can sometimes rival the firms employing them. If a firm’s biggest rainmakers can walk away with their teams, expertise and potentially their clients, what exactly does the partnership
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NEW YORK, September 25, 2026: International law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges LLP announced today that leading private equity lawyer Peter Feist will return to the Firm as a partner and U.S. Co-Head of its Private Equity practice, based in New York. Peter is a highly regarded private equity lawyer with more than 25 years of experience
September 29, 2026 | London: Luminance, the global leader in Contract Intelligence for the enterprise, has appointed Don Riddick as its new Chief Legal Officer (CLO). Don will lead the company’s legal, governance and compliance functions, manage its legal risk, advise the Board on material legal and risk matters, and align the legal strategy with
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